BOOKS 2019

some old, some new, most borrowed, some blue. some re-reads, a few forthcoming. not ranked, listed in order read. a handful of very faves pictured below. thank you for your words, thank you for your recs! wishing each of you the words you need in 2020. 

1. Depression and Other Magic Tricks by Sabrina Benaim (poetry)
2. Nobody Cares by Anne T. Donahue (essays)
3. Letters From Mikey by Marilyn Mackay and Lenore Berscheid (short fiction)
4. Bang Bang by Kat Sandler (play)
5. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
6. Brazil Square by Berni Stapleton (play)
7. Half Spent Was The Night by Ami Mckay
8. Little One by Hannah Moscovitch (play)
9. In This World by Hannah Moscovitch (play)
10. Other People’s Children by Hannah Moscovitch (play)
11. The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
12. A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena
13. The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
14. When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
15. The Haunting of Margaret Duley by Berni Stapleton (play)
16. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
17. love, life by Berni Stapleton
18. Push by Sapphire
19. The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
20. The Immoralists by Chloe Benjamin
21. A Director Prepares by Ann Bogart (essays)
22. Nocturne by Helen Humphreys
23. Final Girls by Riley Sager
24. The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill
25. The Deserters by Pamela Mulloy
26. City Still Breathing by Matthew Heiti
27. Women Talking by Miriam Toews
28. Lullabies For Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill
29. Brass Rubbings by Gordon Pinsent (play)
30. Notes Toward Recovery by Louise Ells
31. Girly Muckle and the Queerhands by Berni Stapleton
32. Sing to It by Amy Hempel (short stories)
33. Can’t and Won’t by Lydia Davis (short stories)
34. Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss
35. The Outsider by Stephen King
36. Machine Without Horses by Helen Humphreys
37. Turn of the Screw by Henry James
38. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
39. I Am I Am I Am by Maggie O’Farrell
40. The Seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
41. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
42. Encore by Alexis Koetting
43. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
44. Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
45. The Girls by Emma Cline
46. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
47. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
48. In-Between Days by Teva Harrison
49. Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman
50.  Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
51. Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
52. Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
53. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
54. The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
55. Leaving Earth by Helen Humphreys
56. Body & Soul, edited by Susan Scott (short stories)
57. Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood (short stories)
58. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
59. Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
60. Normal People by Sally Rooney
61. On Writing by Stephen King
62. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
63. Summer of my Amazing Luck by Miriam Toews
64. The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeny
65. When Will It Stop Hurting by Glenn Cameron (short memoir)
66. The Home for Unwanted Girls by Joanna Goodman
67. Mustard by Kat Sandler (play)
68. Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
69. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
70. Elevation by Stephen King
71. Theft by Finding by David Sedaris (journals)
72. These Wings by Kim Fahner (poetry)
73. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
74. Worry by Jessica Westhead
75. Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
76. Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
77. The Art of Dying by Sarah Tolmie (poetry)
78. There There by Tommy Orange
79. All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
80. Little Fish by Casey Plett
81. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
82. Brother by David Chariandy
83. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
84. The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
85. Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
86. The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
87. Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
88. Maid by Stephanie Land
89. Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline
90. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
91. A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett
92. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
93. The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
94. The Seas by Samantha Hunt